EPISODE 1: First Time Again

I wasn't going to make any comments about the new season of TWD. However, this first episode is spectacular and is cinematic in the writing and execution.

I know that TWD is six years old and how much "zombie apocalypse" can be new? This is new. From the very first scenes the viewer knows the danger and it amps up from there.

Well, there is a reason that the fenced settlement of ALEXANDRIA (no, not Virginia).

(I don't know where that place is but it is in the east without snow.)

It seems that ALEXANDRIA is protected by a quarry that has thousands of zombies trapped in it and those Zombies are about to break out.

And it ends on a cliffhanger.

I think that's the best episode since Carol told Lizzie to "Look at the flowers." I'm not sure but there is a granite quarry about five miles from my house and that may have been the one they used. BTW, my wife guessed who was blowing the horn.

At first I thought ho hum, another zombie show. I didn't watch TWD until we drove by where all the cars were abandoned on the four-lane highway one day. My wife and I got to talking about the show and decided to watch an episode just to see what was going on. We were both hooked and she normally hates the gory stuff.

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I hope you know that Sophia was Carol's daughter. That episode from the first season had me in tears.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the episode is "parry much dead already" and it is set at Herschel's farm near the big city of Atlanta. It is heartbreaking. It will give you insight into the episode with "look at the flowers" and why Carol is such a great "watcher."

Carol knows true horror. That is why she was so easily and quickly able to scare that kid in one of last year's episode.

Dave, the show is now set in Virginia. There are several instances where they have made this clear, though not hit the audience over the head with it. The car they show up to Alexandria in has Virginia plates on it, they were on their way to Washington, DC when they arrived there, in the premiere episode of season six (the latest episode as of today) there are some signs on the tractor/farm supply store Glenn is at that make it obvious it's in Virginia. I think one said something along the line of, "Virginia's favorite supplier..." of some good or service. Now, my guess is they are still filming in Georgia, but the style of vegetation/forestation is typical of the southeast US from Washington DC, southward to about Atlanta.

--LT

I forgot that trip. oops.

bad me. Bad me.

Eugene of the perfect mullet was the impetus for that.

Dave, I know where the real actual entrance to "Hershel's farm" is. All you can see from the highway is the gate and trees but I pass by it driving down to Woodbury. Yep, there really is a Woodbury although the town used in the show was actually Senoia. I've watched all the episodes now, and have seasons 1-4 on DVD. Yeah, Sophia got lost when that herd went through on the highway and was the last one out of the barn.

LT, yes it's still filmed in Georgia. They actually have a studio built in Senoia and they use all around that area for shooting. Its' funny when they use a real neighborhood to see big signs telling residents NOT to mow their grass.

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After Episode THREE - "Thank You" I wasn't going to post a damn thing.

However, when I come across an alcohol fueled something or other...

Don't drink and binge!

http://wbay.com/2015/10/26/man-tells-po ... -a-zombie/

GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who had been watching TV’s “The Walking Dead” told authorities he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie.

Grants police spokesman Moses Marquez said Sunday that 23-year-old Christopher Paquin was beaten and that 23-year-old Damon Perry is being held on a murder charge.

Perry’s attorney, Michael E. Calligan, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Officers were called Thursday afternoon to an apartment complex where Perry was allegedly wielding a knife.

They found Paquin’s body inside an apartment and maintenance workers detaining Perry.

Perry told investigators they had been drinking when Paquin began “to change into a zombie” and tried to bite him.

Police say Perry beat Paquin with his hands, feet, an electric guitar and a microwave.

Authorities say Perry attributed his actions to binge-watching “The Walking Dead,” which centers on a zombie apocalypse, on Netflix.

Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:52 pm After Episode THREE - "Thank You" I wasn't going to post a damn thing.

All I said last night was, "Well crap." Crap was not the exact word I used.

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Last night has no resolution but all I can say is Dayyyam!

No spoilers, at least not yet.

Episode 4 -- Here's Not Here

After three weeks of balls-to-the-wall furious, non-stop action, THE WALKING DEAD gives us a quiet respite, a thoughtful essay into humanity and compassion. A quiet look into the much used phrase that "all life is precious" ... Most people that say that don't really understand what it means.

The character Morgan Jones, played by Lennie James, just reappeared at the very end of last season and this season revealed that he has changed. This was more like a Harold Pinter play of character study compared to what went before.

Remember that Morgan Jones was the first man to help Rick Grimes in season one after Rick woke from the coma and found the world had gone to shit and was filled with zombies. He's the man whose wife was a zombie and then later in a subsequent seasons keeps meeting Rick while undergoing various changes.

Don't worry that this episode doesn't carry the impact of the previous episodes. It is as much drama as the is packed into two, three and four hour stories on TV.